Devices for discharging bakery goods, to be combined with an upstream continuous baking oven, are described. The device has transfer means for transferring bakery goods from a storage unit to discharging means, wherein the discharging means direct the bakery goods to a discharging compartment. The discharging means include a conveying installation and a dispensing installation, wherein the dispensing installation is suppliable by the conveying installation with bakery goods.
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1. A device for discharging bakery goods, to be combined with an upstream continuous baking oven, the device comprising: a storage unit for storing the bakery goods; a discharging device for directing the bakery goods to a discharging compartment, wherein the discharging device includes: a first conveying installation and a first dispensing installation, the first dispensing installation positionable in at least a first and at least a second position, wherein the first dispensing installation in the at least a first position thereof is suppliable by the first conveying installation with at least one of the bakery goods in order for said first dispensing installation upon being moved to the at least a second position thereof to dispense the at least one of the bakery goods to the discharging compartment; at least a second conveying installation and at least a second dispensing installation, the at least a second dispensing installation positionable in at least a first and at least a second position, wherein the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation are mutually disposed in such a manner that the at least one of the bakery goods is conveyable from the at least a second dispensing installation in the at least a second position thereof onto the first dispensing installation and, in the at least a second position of the first dispensing installation, from there to the discharging compartment; and a transfer element for transferring the bakery goods from the storage unit to the discharging device.
2. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein each of the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation include a bearing face on which the bakery goods bear in the respective at least a first position.
3. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 2 , wherein the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation are disposed on top of one another and laterally mutually offset in such a manner that the bearing faces of the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation in the respective at least a second position thereof form two inclined mutually aligned planes such that the bakery goods are directed across the respective bearing faces of the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation in a direction of the discharging compartment.
4. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 2 , wherein the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation are disposed on top of one another such that the respective bearing faces are moved in an opposite manner from a respective receiving position to a respective dispensing position.
5. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein at least a first conveying direction in which the bakery goods are conveyed by the first conveying installation and the at least a second conveying installation onto the first dispensing installation or at least a second dispensing installation, respectively, and at least one dispensing direction in which the bakery goods leave the first dispensing installation or the at least a second dispensing installation, respectively, lie in a common plane.
6. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 5 , wherein at least one of the first dispensing installation in the at least a first position or the at least a second dispensing installation in the at least a first position include a bearing face on which the bakery goods bear, the bearing face being inclined in relation to the at least one conveying direction of at least one of the first conveying installation or the at least a second conveying installation, such that the bakery goods are transported by the at least one of the first conveying installation or the at least a second conveying installation onto the inclined bearing face.
7. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein the at least a first position of the first dispensing installation and the at least a first position of the at least a second dispensing installation are configured in a receiving position in which the bakery goods are supplied by the first conveying installation and the at least a second conveying installation, respectively, and held, and wherein the at least a second position of the first dispensing installation and the at least a second position of the at least a second dispensing installation are configured in a dispensing position in which the bakery goods are directed onward.
8. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 7 , wherein the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation are movable in a reciprocating manner between the receiving position and the dispensing position.
9. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein the storage unit comprises a revolving conveyer, the revolving conveyor including a multiplicity of revolving carriers for storing the bakery goods.
10. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 9 , wherein the transport element comprises a drop-off element for receiving the bakery goods from at least one carrier of the multiplicity of revolving carriers.
11. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein the first conveying installation and the at least a second conveying installation are disposed on top of one other and are mutually parallel in that the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation, respectively, are disposed at a common end of the first conveying installation and the at least a second conveying installation, respectively.
12. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first conveying installation or the at least a second conveying installation include a linear conveyor for conveying the bakery goods sequentially onto at least one of the first dispensing installation or the at least a second dispensing installation.
13. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first dispensing installation or the at least a second dispensing installation has a bearing face, the bearing face for bearing the bakery goods in the at least a first position of the at least one of the first dispensing installation or the at least a second dispensing installation, and from which the bakery goods are directed in a direction of the discharging compartment in the at least a second position of the at least one of the first dispensing installation or the at least a second dispensing installation.
14. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein the bearing face crosses a horizontal plan when pivoting from the at least a first position of the at least one of the first dispensing installation or the at least a second dispensing installation to the at least a second position of the at least one of the first dispensing installation or the at least a second dispensing installation and back.
15. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein each of the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation comprise a pivoting element which by way of a pivoting movement move the respective each of the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation from the at least a first position to the at least a second position.
16. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first dispensing installation and the at least a second dispensing installation or the first conveying installation and the at least a second conveying installation are disposed beside one another.
17. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein the at least a second dispensing installation in the at least a first position and the at least a second position is capable of directing the baker goods to the first dispensing installation, and the second dispensing installation in the at least a second position is capable of directing the bakery goods to a further dispensing installation.
18. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein the storage unit is part of a continuous baking oven.
19. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein a conveying direction of the bakery goods from the transfer element to at least one of the first conveying installation or the at least a second conveying installation runs in a substantially perpendicular manner to a conveying direction from the at least one of the first conveying installation or the at least a second conveying installation to at least one of the first dispensing installation or the at least a second dispensing installation.
20. The device for discharging baked goods of claim 1 , wherein the transfer element comprises a plurality of slides for sliding the bakery goods on to at least one of the first dispensing installation, the at least a second dispensing installation, the first conveying installation, or the at least a second conveying installation.
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August 9, 2016
December 1, 2020
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